J. T. McDonald

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Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889

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J. T. McDonald

Quill platform ID: p16609.

A Republican from the Sixth District, the forty-one year old miner and farmer lived in Ellensburg. Born in Canada, McDonald came to the United States in 1864. He engaged in lumbering in Michigan and mining in Nevada before coming to Washington in 1884 to mine in Kittitas county. He had been a delegate to the legislature and chairman of the Republican central committee, and at the time of the Convention he was a member at large of that committee. He owned stock in a saloon in Ellensburg. McDonald served on the following committees: Agriculture, Manufacturing, Fisheries and Commerce; Mining and Mining Interests.

Member of 05. Fifth District—Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889.

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